>The average age of a Vietnam KIA was 22

>Soldiers in vietnam on average saw combat 240/365 days a year

>WW2 Pacific the average infantryman saw only 4 days in 4 YEARS of combat

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All for what?

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>It ain't me

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>tfw 22
>tfw would definitely be KIA

rev up those feels anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Urtiyp-G6jY

>>31973790
This is true but misleading.
Marines in the Pacific spent 6 months on a ship, then stormed an island, if they survived the BARBARIC conventional military engagement for a few days, they got back on the ship. Rinse and repeat.
In Vietnam, soldiers would routinely have pot shots taken at them, step on a landmine, boobytap, have a grenade thrown at them by a disgruntled rice farmer, ect...

Both were horrible, but the extent of actual "combat" IE fighting another well equipped well disciplined enemy unit, was much more prevalent in WWII

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Yeah, but it beat the fuck out of being a frontline soldier in WW1 where your expected active duty service life was 8 days.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=k4Pd527GN48

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UA730QtjOBE

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>>31973799
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>the life expectancy of a 2nd Lt. dropped into a hotzone in Vietnam on 1968 was Sixteen minutes. ᴹᵃʲᵒʳ. Sixteen fucking minutes.

>>31973873
Jee... who woulda thunk conducting airborne cavalry assaults behind enemy lines with little to no logistical support in a mountainous tropical motherfucking jungle was a bad idea.

Sauce - my godfather who was part of 3 airborne missions in Vietnam, recieved 3 purple hearts and came home missing both hands and his jaw.